Trek Lit Featuring The Sheliak?

GalaxyClass1701 · December 23 2012, 12:06 AM

Does this exist?

Christopher · December 23 2012, 02:32 AM

They're briefly mentioned in The Buried Age, but not really featured. I'm not aware of anything else.

Mage · December 23 2012, 12:10 PM

Weren't they mentioned in KRAD's Demons Of Air And Darkness aswell? Nog got some sort of shield modification from them I think.

tomswift2002 · December 24 2012, 02:41 PM

I can't remember if the are visited in "Imbalance" (TNG #22, 1992)or if that's that other insectoid race that was heard off screen in "The Big Goodbye".

Freman · December 24 2012, 05:28 PM

I think I asked this same question a year or so ago. I was hoping there was some books with the Sheliak in them, as I always thought they would have made a good recurring villain on the show.

But alas, they never returned, on the show or in the lit.

DEWLine · December 25 2012, 03:09 AM

Guessing adventures involving them and the Federation were had aboard other Starfleet ships, then...

Markonian · December 25 2012, 04:15 PM

Maybe, with a bit of luck, they might reappear in a Typhon Pact novel. Being more than a single-planet-power, they could have bearing on the astropolitical scale.

VDCNI · December 25 2012, 05:29 PM

tomswift2002 wrote:

I can't remember if the are visited in "Imbalance" (TNG #22, 1992)or if that's that other insectoid race that was heard off screen in "The Big Goodbye".

That's the Jarada from The Big Goodbye in Imbalance.

VDCNI · December 25 2012, 05:31 PM

Mage wrote:

Weren't they mentioned in KRAD's Demons Of Air And Darkness aswell? Nog got some sort of shield modification from them I think.

That's the Jarada as well I think.

vorador33 · December 25 2012, 11:05 PM

No its the Sheliak, the refugees from the colony go through a portal to the Jarda homewold

Therin of Andor · December 29 2012, 05:56 AM

GalaxyClass1701 wrote:

Does this exist?

http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Sheliak_Corporate

http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Sheliak_%28mirror%29

Freman · January 5 2013, 08:54 PM

Christopher, you mentioned them in Watching the Clock, as well. For shame that you forgot that.

TJ Sinclair · January 6 2013, 10:38 AM

The Sheliak Corporate seems to be quite a ways away from the central UFP, so I'm guessing that has some part in their lack of presence. Still, it would be great to see them show up sometime.In a Titan or Aventine book, maybe?

I can definitely see them getting along with the Typhon Pact, especially the Tholians, given their similar senses of exactitude. Might be interesting if the Federation reached out to the Sheliak first, though...

TJ Sinclair · January 6 2013, 10:39 AM

Oh, another thought... have they shown up in any Trek comics? Maybe during MJF's run on DC's TNG series?

Edit_XYZ · January 6 2013, 11:20 AM

Christopher wrote:

They're briefly mentioned in The Buried Age, but not really featured. I'm not aware of anything else.

Someone forgot he mentioned them in DTI: Watching the clock.

Edit - I see Freman already saw this particular slip.

December 23 2012, 12:06 AM	#1
GalaxyClass1701 Captain Location: USS Titan	Trek Lit Featuring The Sheliak? Does this exist?

December 23 2012, 12:10 PM	#3
Mage Fleet Captain	Re: Trek Lit Featuring The Sheliak? Weren't they mentioned in KRAD's Demons Of Air And Darkness aswell? Nog got some sort of shield modification from them I think. __________________ Niner. Lurker. Browncoat.

December 24 2012, 02:41 PM	#4
tomswift2002 Captain	Re: Trek Lit Featuring The Sheliak? I can't remember if the are visited in "Imbalance" (TNG #22, 1992)or if that's that other insectoid race that was heard off screen in "The Big Goodbye".

December 24 2012, 05:28 PM	#5
Freman Fleet Captain Location: Kenora, Ontario, Canada	Re: Trek Lit Featuring The Sheliak? I think I asked this same question a year or so ago. I was hoping there was some books with the Sheliak in them, as I always thought they would have made a good recurring villain on the show. But alas, they never returned, on the show or in the lit. __________________ Booyaka!!!!

December 25 2012, 03:09 AM	#6
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December 23 2012, 02:32 AM	#2
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December 25 2012, 04:15 PM	#7
Markonian Commander Location: Cork, Ireland	Re: Trek Lit Featuring The Sheliak? Maybe, with a bit of luck, they might reappear in a Typhon Pact novel. Being more than a single-planet-power, they could have bearing on the astropolitical scale. __________________ 1.000 years: University Leipzig, 1409-2409 Gorn to be wild!

December 25 2012, 11:05 PM	#10
vorador33 Lieutenant Junior Grade Location: Derbyshire England	Re: Trek Lit Featuring The Sheliak? No its the Sheliak, the refugees from the colony go through a portal to the Jarda homewold

January 5 2013, 08:54 PM	#12
Freman Fleet Captain Location: Kenora, Ontario, Canada	Re: Trek Lit Featuring The Sheliak? Christopher, you mentioned them in Watching the Clock, as well. For shame that you forgot that. __________________ Booyaka!!!!

January 6 2013, 10:38 AM	#13
TJ Sinclair Captain Location: There and back again...	Re: Trek Lit Featuring The Sheliak? The Sheliak Corporate seems to be quite a ways away from the central UFP, so I'm guessing that has some part in their lack of presence. Still, it would be great to see them show up sometime.In a Titan or Aventine book, maybe? I can definitely see them getting along with the Typhon Pact, especially the Tholians, given their similar senses of exactitude. Might be interesting if the Federation reached out to the Sheliak first, though... __________________ "Social harmony is not a good goal. There's plenty of social harmony in a prison camp. The individual is the smallest and most oppressed minority..." -- Diane Carey, April 2001

January 6 2013, 10:39 AM	#14
TJ Sinclair Captain Location: There and back again...	Re: Trek Lit Featuring The Sheliak? Oh, another thought... have they shown up in any Trek comics? Maybe during MJF's run on DC's TNG series? __________________ "Social harmony is not a good goal. There's plenty of social harmony in a prison camp. The individual is the smallest and most oppressed minority..." -- Diane Carey, April 2001